Cheap Swank in Sin City, Part the First: Swank and Swank Envy
Las Vegas is a drug – a wild one, a staggeringly fun one. But you must use, as the finest fine print always reminds us, responsibly. Because this drug’s ultimate purpose is to melt down your brain and devour the dumb animal that is left behind. And no one knows how a drug is going [...]
The Watery City
(I wrote this on a legal pad on the train into downtown San Francisco the day I did my A-Z walk last month.) Maybe it all has to do with the water. We have the same ocean in Orange County, but it’s over THERE and we’re over HERE on the land and (apart for the [...]
Well what do you know…
Chuck Klosterman and I had the same observation about a certain highway sign in New Mexico. Klosterman, in a pretty hilarious 2005 Esquire profile of Val Kilmer: “The drive to Santa Fe on I-25 is mildly Zen; there are road signs that say, GUSTY WINDS MAY EXIST. This seems more like lazy philosophy than travel [...]
Something to tide you over
I wrote this article last year – it was published back then, but reading was something of a pain, since you had to download a .pdf and page through it. They have since made it more easily available; so if you want to read a little travel piece about a State Park in the mountains [...]